Australian Photography

FINE TUNING PEOPLE & PORTRAITURE

I have a love/hate relationship with shooting people and portrait images, and it is the one field that I really have to talk myself through when shooting. Being intimidated by portraiture is something many photographers experience, and, apart from a lucky few who are often gregarious in nature and comfortable shooting people, is something that just has to be overcome.

Yet every time I have such an opportunity, I always find I manage to take some images I think most photographers would be happy with.

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